Cold War: Approximately 1947 (due to U.S. President Harry Truman’s Truman Doctrine) to 1991 (Operation Desert Storm, collapse of Soviet Union).
NATO reporting name Hip. The Михаил Мил Ми-8 (Mikhail Mil Mi-8) rotary wing began military service in 1968, with the Soviet Union. First production was done in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic. The Mi-17 Hip has more powerful turbines than the Mi-8 Hip, also, the position of the tail rotor is different.
A Soviet Aeroflot silly-vilian Hip, early 1970s.
The Mi-8 is also used by silly-vilian (civilian) transport companies. I have several Western/NATO publications from the 1970s that speculate that the Mi-8 started military service prior to 1967. The earliest photos I’ve found of the Hip are from the early 1970s.
Fresh Hip for Pakistan, early 1970s.
Warsaw Pact Poland’s PWL license built the silly-vilian Hip, early 1970s.
Purportedly a Hungarian Hip, early 1970s.
Soviet military Hips, early 1970s.
Silly-vilian ambulance version, photo published 1980.
Slov-Air airliner Hip, 1980.
1980.
Warsaw Pact Czechoslovakia Hip, 1980.
Fueling a Warsaw Pact Czechoslovak Hip, during a snow storm, 1980.
Egyptian Hips, photo dated 10SEP1983.
Soviet Hip visiting Little Diomede, Alaska, part of Operation Bering Bridge to help Alaskan Eskimos visit their relatives in the Soviet Union. Photo by Master Sergeant Ed Boyce, 23APR1989.
Vietnamese Hip, 08FEB1991. Photo by Master Sergeant Jose Lopez.
Abandoned Iraqi Hip, after Desert Storm, 03MAR1991. Photo by Staff Sergeant Dean W. Wagner.
Post Cold War, Balkan Wars, War on Terror, Battle for Ukraine, 1992 to present:
Last days of a former East German Mi-8S VIP transport. Photo credit C.J. van Gent, published 1993.
Kazak Hip during the international Central Asian ‘Peacekeeping’ Battalion 2000 so-called humanitarian wargame in Kazakhstan. U.S. Air Force photo by Technical Sergeant Jim Varhegyi, 10SEP2000.
The remains of an Afghan Hip, 18JAN2002. Photo by Captain Charles G. Grow.
In 2005, a new Hip was created with improved turbines, larger cargo door, it was called the Mi-8AMT, but the export version is known as the Mi-171.
United Nations’ Hip during Operation Jingle Air in Afghanistan, 07JUN2008. U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Charles Brice.
Iraqi Hip, 17OCT2009. U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Travis Zielinski.
U.S. Air Force video (by Technical Sergeant Scott Wilcox), Afghans prep their new U.S. taxpayer funded Hip for take-off, 10NOV2009:
Russian Hips in Arkalyk, Kazakhstan, moments before taking off to support the landing of another Soyuz spacecraft, 08MAR2010. Photo credit Bill Ingalls.
Lithuanian Mi-8 lands onboard USS Mount Whitney during a NATO wargame, 17SEP2010. U.S. Navy photo.
Croat Mi-171 Hip, 29MAY2012, U.S. Army video by Staff Sergeant Jose Ibarra:
Czech Republic (Czechia) Hips on the Baumholder Training Support Center, Germany, for a NATO wargame, 12SEP2014. U.S. Army photo by Ruediger Hess.
Laotian Hip, 13DEC2017. U.S. Army photo via Clayton Harrison.
Мил Ми-8MTV5 (Mil Mi-8MTV5, export version Mi-17V5) during Russia’s Vostock wargame in the Eastern Military District, 11-17SEP2018:
U.S. Army photo by Sergeant James Lefty Larimer. A ‘hip’ Egyptian helicopter (Mil 17V-5) conducting med-evac (medical evacuation) training during Bright Star 2018.
As of 11SEP2023, NATO-Slovakia now has six NATO-Germany supplied Leopard 2A4 battle tanks.
Photo via Slovak Defense Ministry.
The taxpayers of NATO-Germany should be proud that they are funding 15 rebuilt Cold War era Leopard 2A4 battle tanks for NATO-Slovakia! It is part of a deal Slovakia made to give 30 Cold War era BVP-1 (BMP-1) Infantry Fighting Vehicles to Ukraine.
Official Armed Forces of the Slovak Republic video of the first live-fire training of the Leo-2A4 for Slovak tank crews, in August 2023:
German tankers teach Slovak tankers how to boresight the Rheinmetall 120mm gun, August 2023. Photo via Slovak Defense Ministry.
Bore-sighting the Rheinmetall 120mm gun, August 2023. Photo via Slovak Defense Ministry.
The 120mm round has a silver/gray casing which is combustible plastic, not metal. This one has a Armor-Piercing Discarding Sabot (APDS, aka Sabot) projectile, the blue color indicates it is a training round. Photo via Slovak Defense Ministry.
These are 120mm HEAT (High Explosive Anti-Tank) rounds. Photo via Slovak Defense Ministry.
A Leo-2A4 delivered to Slovakia, April 2023. Photo via Slovak Defense Ministry.
“In September 2008, building on the experience of over a decade of working together, the Secretaries General of both NATO and the United Nations (UN) agreed to establish a framework for expanded consultation and cooperation….
The UN is frequently invited to attend NATO ministerial meetings and summits; the NATO Secretary General participates in the UN General Assembly; and staff level meetings, covering the broad range of cooperation and dialogue, take place on an annual basis between the secretariats of NATO and the UN.”–Relations with the United Nations, NATO, 25JUL2023
On 19SEP2023, the taxpayer funded North Atlantic Treaty Organization released a promotional video boasting that both NATO and the United Nations were created after the Second World War to impose the Western elites’ version of ‘peace & security’:
At the July 2023 Vilnius Summit, NATO issued a detailed statement revealing that after 1992 (the end of the Cold War/fall of the Soviet Union) the Balkans Wars were used to justify the expansion of NATO and integration into UN ‘peacekeeping’/globalist operations. The title of the NATO statement is Relations with the United Nations, read it for yourself (and notice they use British empire English grammar and spelling, they do not use U.S. English).
This is just the tip of the spear of the long life of what is now the world’s most prolific and oldest battle tank still in use!
This is about the T-34 series battle tank specifically armed with the 85mm gun. The main gun was a modification of the high velocity 85mm anti-aircraft gun. At first the D-5T version of the 85mm was used, but was quickly replaced by the slightly more compact Zis-S-53 gun.
Great Patriotic War (World War Two):June 1941 to May 1945.
The first T-34-85s, with the D-5T gun, are sometimes called the Model 1943 even though their production was from January-March 1944.
Early T-34-85 with D-5T gun. Note rounded fenders and mish-mash of two styles of roadwheels. One style of roadwheel uses a solid rubber tire, the other style has no rubber tire.
Production of the T-34-85 with the better Zis-S-53 gun began in March 1944, and was called Model 1944. Improved versions were called Model 1945, Model 1946, etcetera, and these model designations did not necessarily refer to the year of production.
Germans use a knocked-out T-34-85, with D-5T gun, as a forward observation post.
During the Great Patriotic War (World War Two), the shape of the turret of the T-34-85 varied depending on which Soviet factory made it. The turret had to be enlarged to accommodate a radio and another crewman. Also, the positions of the turret ventilators shifted. Early on, the fenders were rounded, by the end of the war they were squared-off.
The early, smaller, turret of the T-34-85.
Silent German film, destroyed T-34-85s, 1944:
More silent German film, lots of burning T-34-85s, makes you wonder how the Germans lost:
Yugoslav T-34-85 in the village of Vinkovci, sometime in 1945.
Torgau, Germany, April 1945, Soviets show-off their T-34-85 to a U.S. Major General Reinhardt, who is accompanied by Russian General Rossovsky (divisional general of the First Ukrainian Army):
Cold War: Approximately 1947 (due to U.S. President Harry Truman’s Truman Doctrine) to 1991 (Operation Desert Storm, collapse of Soviet Union).
After the Great Patriotic War, a standardized version of the T-34-85 was developed and several Eastern European countries got the job of upgrading and standardizing as many T-34-85s as they could. Some of the East German and Czechoslovakian upgrades could be identified by the use of the German Notec (Notek) light and different styles of headlight brush guard. Czechoslovakia also designed their own style of exhaust pipe covers, which reduced the amount of steel used to make them.
Silent Soviet film, Moscow Victory Day parade, 09MAY1949:
United Nations’ Korean Police Action, First Battle of the Naktong Bulge, August 1950. Silent U.S. Marine Corps film (dated 17AUG1950) of U.S. Marines and U.S. Army soldiers inspecting knocked-out North Korean T-34-85 in Yongsan Myon (aka Yeongsan-myeon):
South of Suwon, Korea, a T-34-85 that got knocked out when the bridge it was on was bombed by the U.S. Air Force. Photo dated October 1950.
Silent Soviet film, Soviet troops and their T-34-85s supposedly leave Berlin, Germany, early 1950s(?):
Silent film, T-34-85s parade in Budapest, Hungary, early 1950s(?)
Putting down the East German uprising, June 1953.
Silent film, T-34-85s put down worker riots on Potsdamer Platz, in what would become East Berlin, East Germany, June 1953:
This photo shows Soviet General Dibrova standing on top of a T-34-85, imploring protesting Germans to go home.
1953 was a bad year for the Soviet occupiers of what would become East Berlin.
This photo shows protesting Germans trying to break into a Soviet T-34-85.
The 1953 Berlin Crisis would not be the only time Germans rebelled against Soviet occupiers.
Film, D.D.R. (Deutsche Demokratische Republik, German Democratic Republic) NVA (Nationale Volks-Armee, National Folks’ Army aka East German army) shows-off their T-34-85s to the public, 1955-56(?):
Knocked-out Syrian T-34-85, Golan Heights 1957. This is a Czechoslovakian upgrade, the identifying feature are the ‘wavy’ style of exhaust pipe covers, which were specific to Czechoslovak upgrades.
Czechoslovak T-34-85 with Notek, huge external fuel drums and two styles of roadwheels.
Experimenting with water fording.
U.S. Embassy photo. The first tanks deployed in the crisis that led to the building of the Berlin Wall were former Soviet but now East German T-34-85s, on 13AUG1961.
A Cuban T-34-85, supposedly during the April 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion.
Sometime in the 1960s, a T-34 recovery vehicle was used to position Czechoslovak T-35-85s for the Dukla Battlefield Military Open-Air Museum. Photo via Slovak Republic Ministry of Defense.
Sometime in the 1960s, a T-34 recovery vehicle was used to position Czechoslovak T-35-85s for the Dukla Battlefield Military Open-Air Museum. Photo via Slovak Republic Ministry of Defense.
In the late 1960s, the Republic of Korea (South Korea) built the May 16 Square, in Seoul. They used captured North Korean tanks, including this T-34-85, as a display. 27 years after the completion of the square (in 1971) it was torn-up to make the larger, greener, Yeouido Park.
Fresh T-34-85s for Democratic Republic of Viet-Nam (North Vietnam), in 1971, during training for what would become the 1972 Offensive against South Vietnam.
More preparations for the 1972 Offensive. This T-34-85 has two styles of roadwheels.
Knocked-out Cypriot T-34-85s, with U.S. M2 .50 caliber heavy machineguns, during the Turkish invasion of 1974.
I took this photo during a California Army National Guard drill weekend on Fort Irwin, California.
T-34-85 monument, Kiev, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, 20SEP1985. Photo by Don S. Montgomery.
Yugoslavian (possibly JNA, Jugoslovenska Narodna Armija) T-34-85, sometime late 1970s or 1980s.
Yugoslavians preferred the U.S. Browning M2 .50 cal heavy machinegun, over the Soviet version. Contrary to popular western belief, Yugoslavia was never a part of the Warsaw Pact.
The digital watch this guy is wearing indicates the photo was made probably in the 1980s. Also, notice the position of the turret ventilators, instead of two located next to each other, they are separate, one at the turret rear, the other at the turret front.
Post Cold War, Balkan Wars, War on Terror, Battle for Ukraine, 1992 to present:
An abandoned JNA-Serb T-34-85. U.S. Army photo by Specialist Glenn W. Suggs, 29FEB1996.
A rubberized Bosnian-Serb T-34-85.
Supposedly this photo shows a JNA-Serb T-34-85 withdrawing from Macedonia in 2001.
September 2010 video of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) T-34-85 museum exhibit:
Revealed in October 2015, North Korea still uses the T-34-85, it has been upgraded, including new tracks with rubber shoes/pads.
Restored T-34-85 in Zagan, Poland. U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Shiloh Capers, 21OCT2017.
In the ongoing civil war in Yemen, it is reported that both rebels and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia backed militias are using T-34-85s.
Photo from 2018 or 2019 showing a Saudi backed Yemen militia T-34-85 being fired from outside the tank.
CGTN video, during a 2018 parade in Moscow the driver of a T-34-85 got antsy while loading onto a tractor-trailer, and drove off the trailer rolling the tank:
A train-load of Laotian T-34-85s heading for Russia, to be used in parades and movies.
CGTN video, Laos returns 30 operable T-34-85 tanks to Russia in January 2019 (the video incorrectly shows T-34-76 during WW2):
At the beginning of September 2020, the Institute of Military History decided to move the old T-34-85 ‘gate guards’ at the Dukla Battlefield Military Open-Air Museum to a new location in the village of Kapišová, that will make public viewing easier. Photo via Slovak Republic Ministry of Defense.
At the beginning of September 2020, the Institute of Military History decided to move the old T-34-85 ‘gate guards’ at the Dukla Battlefield Military Open-Air Museum to a new location that will make public viewing easier. Photo via Slovak Republic Ministry of Defense.
Video of Yemen rebels destroying a government/Saudi militia T-34-85, sometime in 2022:
Russian ‘Z’ force BRDM drives past the T-34-85 monument in Armyansk, Crimea, 24FEB2022.
Restored T-34/85 takes part in parade rehearsals in Moscow, Russia, honoring the end of The Great Patriotic War. Photo by Bai Xueqi, 07MAY2022, via Xinhua News.
In 2022 and 2023, several news sources reported that both Ukraine and Russia were using T-34-85s in combat!
Ramped-up deportation flight operations by U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), as well as U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP, aka Border Patrol). The flights are sometimes referred to as ‘repatriation flights’, or ‘removal flights’, or ‘family unit removal flight’.
The study focused on data from Maccabi Healthcare Services (MHS), Israel’s second largest Health Maintenance Organization, the study was published 01JUL2022 in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.
“SARS-CoV-2-naive vaccinees had a 13.06-fold (95% confidence interval [CI], 8.08–21.11) increased risk for breakthrough infection with the Delta variant compared to unvaccinated-previously-infected individuals, when the first event (infection or vaccination) occurred during January and February of 2021.”
“After adjusting for comorbidities, we found a 27.02-fold risk (95% CI: 12.7 to 57.5) for symptomatic breakthrough infection as opposed to symptomatic reinfection (P < .001)”
“This is the largest real-world observational study comparing naturally acquired immunity, gained through previous SARS-CoV-2 infection, to vaccine-induced immunity, afforded by the BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine. Our large cohort, enabled by Israel’s rapid rollout of the mass-vaccination campaign, allowed us to investigate the risk for additional infection—either a breakthrough infection in vaccinated individuals or reinfection in previously infected ones—over a longer period than thus far described.
Our analysis demonstrates that SARS-CoV-2-naïve vaccinees had a 13.06-fold increased risk for breakthrough infection with the Delta variant compared to those previously infected, when the first event (infection or vaccination) occurred during January and February of 2021. The increased risk was significant for a symptomatic disease as well.”
U.S. Navy personnel deployed to the British empire’s island of Diego Garcia, get vaccinated on 09AUG2023. USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Raquell Williams.
After World War Two, ‘Western’ European and North Atlantic countries formed NATO, specifically to counter the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union ceased to exist in 1991-92, but NATO has since expanded its reach around the world.
NATO Pacific Partners, from left to right; Australia, Japan, New Zealand, Republic of Korea.
Japan’s Prime Minister, Kishida Fumio, attended a ‘bilateral meeting’ at the NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, on 12JUL2023.
‘Special’ bilateral meeting with Japan, 12JUL2023.
“No other Partner is closer to NATO than Japan.”-Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary General
“…security is not regional, security is global.”-Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary General
“We are, of course, also concerned with China’s heavy military build-up… and its expansion of nuclear forces…”-Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary General
“Welcome to NATO”, video released 12JUL2023:
“Japan and NATO share the understanding that unilateral attempts to change the status quo…. will not be tolerated, regardless of where in the world.”-Kishida Fumio, Prime Minister of Japan
“…we will cooperate in new security areas, such as cyber… destructive technologies, and strategic communications including countering information manipulation.”-Kishida Fumio, Prime Minister of Japan
Please notice that NATO uses British/King’s English grammar/spelling in its press releases, not U.S. English, which is proof to me that NATO is a tool of the British empire (Commonwealth of Nations)!
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NATO-Partner Australia had one of the most strict ‘pland-emic’ lockdown/mandate enforcements of all the English speaking countries, yet out of the state of Western Australia (WA) comes scientific data showing that the never fully approved mRNA vaccines are causing more harm than good!
The BMP-2M is an upgrade of the Cold War era Soviet BMP-2. BMP stands for Boyevaya Mashina Pekhoty (Боевая Машина Пехоты), literally Combat Vehicle Infantry.
The crew of the BMP-2M used their 30mm gun and two 9M133 Kornet missiles to destroy a Ukrainian machinegun nest, and a Ukrainian truck carrying troops. The BMP-2M also has a 30mm grenade launcher.
Video released by RIA Novosti claiming to show the Berezhok in combat near Avdiivka:
Berezhok is the name of a city in the south-west area that is part of the dispute between Ukraine and pro-Russian separatists.
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The United Nations (UN) has no official that is elected by the taxpaying people of the member countries, yet, the UN is about to take sovereignty away from nations, through the World Health Organization (WHO) and its new international pandemic treaty called the Pandemic prevention, preparedness and response accord!
On 04JUL2023, United Kingdom Member of Parliament (MP) Andrew James Bridgen gave a stark warning about freedom at the ‘Challenging the Pandemic Treaty’ debate in the European Union Parliament: